Baked into the venture capital model is an assumption that any individual venture capitalist is going to be wrong way more than he or she is going to be right. But if you get five of them together, with a couple hundred spectators as a crowdsourced backstop, you can come [...]

+Roeland vander MeulenI don't see big problems. Europe is opening up for the concept of driverless cars in an effort to help the European car industry in defending itself against Google and the likes. Also the minds are evolving as I see more and more articles describing driverless cars as improving the safety since most accidents come from human mistakes.Insure will not be problem at all, as these driverless cars will register everything that happened leading to the accident in great detail. Google themselves could even become an insurance company, being another component in the ecosystem of the new mobility.﻿

My first week of wearing the Apple Watch has transformed my thinking about the direction of mobile and wearable computing.

It has become clear to me that we're all becoming cyborgs. A cyborg is a person whose normal human abilities are enhanced or magnified by technology. This is different from a person who uses technology as a tool.

I have a particular interest in the future of the healthcare ecosystem and how it will be affected by the cloud and by social communities.

I love photography, wine, socializing with friends and I try to follow the economic news.

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My professional career has developed over many years in Information Technology in the Pharmaceutical Industry (Janssen - a division of Johnson & Johnson). I have been responsible for some of our biggest IT projects in Europe, including the roll-out of SAP and Siebel in over 20 countries in Europe. At present, I am responsible for our IT solutions in EMEA in the areas of CRM, BI, Web and innovation and integration.